This one-off concert took place on Thursday 24th September 1998 in a barn in Roger's garden in Surrey. It was streamed live on the internet for fans worldwide to see and hear Roger performing ten songs to promote the new 'Electric Fire' album.

Roger and his new band played to an audience of friends, family and invited guests - including Virgin radio. DJ Russ Williams introduced the band.

After the gig Roger was presented with a certificate from the Guinness Book Of Records, as this performance drew the largest audience ever for an internet gig; 595,000 worldwide hits.

This is a complete remastered version of the entire show, and is exclusive to this channel.

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They released a VHS 'Live at the Cyberbarn' which I bought at the time but was disappointingly more a documentary and just had snippets of the performance.

Obviously an old person thing to say but isn't it amazing that less than 20 years ago the idea of live streaming on the internet so someone anywhere in the world could watch blew our minds. Now we don't just watch, we pull our £100 smart phone out our pocket and click through 'live' button and anyone can stream what they are doing for anyone to see.

Even today though, 600000 people isn't too bad. I don't remember the number being so high. This was back in the days of dial up, of course. Wifi hadn't even been invented!

Obviously an old person thing to say but isn't it amazing that less than 20 years ago the idea of live streaming on the internet so someone anywhere in the world could watch blew our minds. Now we don't just watch, we pull our £100 smart phone out our pocket and click through 'live' button and anyone can stream what they are doing for anyone to see.

Even today though, 600000 people isn't too bad. I don't remember the number being so high. This was back in the days of dial up, of course. Wifi hadn't even been invented!

Yes, it is bloody amazing. This concert is epic, the starting point of the internet streaming, and after all these years, nearly 20 years now, the sound and picture quality is superb! And they all perform perfect, vocally and instrumentally.

That is why I recommend anyone who hasn't seen this, to watch the concert here in it's complete form.

TheHero wrote:After the gig Roger was presented with a certificate from the Guinness Book Of Records, as this performance drew the largest audience ever for an internet gig; 595,000 worldwide hits.

yeah. I tried streaming it back in the day. I'm pretty sure it was 595 people hitting it 1000 times each because the bloody thing dropped out ever 8 seconds.I seem to remember IBM's name plastered all over it and thinking it was an awful advertisement for them.

The thing about Electric Fire is that it keeps getting better each time I find the time to take a listen to it.It has stood the test of time extremely well I think. Songs like Pressure On and C'mon On Down (to London town) are among my favorite Taylor songs.

I did see him many times and he was stupendous. AlwaysElectric Fire is a very very good album. Just get rid of People on Streets and its sorted. Yes I agree the drum sound is great. It was pretty awesome on Happiness? too. Shame he didn't put out more really. The last offering is pretty mixed,